Now every room can be “The room where it happens” thanks to Disney+ releasing HAMILTON, the film version of the Broadway production.

Desde Hollywood had the pleasure of participating in a recent virtual press conference with the incredibly talented artists that brought to life the acclaimed musical and this latest incarnation.

Read below some of the highlights, including powerful statements from el genial Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and more.

HAMILTON is now streaming, exclusively on Disney+.

Lin-Manuel Miranda (composer, lyricist, producer, Alexander Hamilton) on releasing this production now, on Disney Plus.

“The world turned upside down. The world changed and I think it took us a while to realize Hamilton wasn’t gonna be playing in any theaters live in our, you know, five productions and our production in London for a long time, and that-that took us a minute. It took us a minute to adjust to sort of the new timeline of the world. And you know, over the course of that happening, of course we heard not only from people who were like, hey, we hear you have a Hamilton movie. Um, we’re all home… Would you please give it to us?

But also, from people who had tickets to see the show somewhere in the world and weren’t able to go. It’s been an incredible gift that Tommy has been working on this movie for the past few years, like over and over. He’d edit, he’d give it six months of rest, then give it another edit. We just sort of realized this is an incredible opportunity. We always said we wanted to democratize the world and see this company doing this show… It just felt like a good opportunity. Also, It happens almost exactly on the five-year anniversary that we filmed it, which is even more extraordinary.”

Daveed Diggs (Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson) on making the show accessible to a massive audience.

I think one of the-one of the things that we were always running up against on Broadway, and this group only ever did it on Broadway, is how prohibitive it was for a lot of people. Folks just could not afford the ticket. And if even you could, or even if there was a way to, there are only so many seats. We were,as a-as a company and an entity, in constant battle with the resale market and all like trying to do things just to get people to see the show.

Lin and Tommy had the brilliant idea of blocking off the street to bring Hamilton to as many people as possible. But still, Broadway is Broadway, and this is a way to really democratize the process a little bit and get folks who couldn’t see it to see it. It makes me feel good that this show is going to be able to be seen by a lot of people, because we spent so much time spinning our wheels on how to get this show seen by more people.

Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler) on the historical moment when the film is released.

We keep learning what this show was given to us for. It’s something that we think we know, we think we learned, and then the world changes and we’re like “Oh, no. It’s for this!” And when this was announced, Tommy so beautifully said it was a celebration of what we are when we come together because we couldn’t, so let’s remember what we are so we can look forward to that, you know, and remember who we are when we’re watching this. And then, we started filling the streets again, because something became more important than protecting ourselves from a virus.

Now we get to remember what those young people felt like, laying down your life to set us free meant something. I think this generation of people need to remember it and we needed to remember. Our young people need to see that example, and I think very specifically right now, this group of people telling this particular story is really important so that we can claim this country. The diverse diversity of this country can be claimed by all of the people that created it. That’s one of the things, one of the many things this show celebrates, and I think it’s so needed right now.

Thomas Kale (director and producer) on the technical aspects of capturing the essence of the show.

We shot the whole thing in three days, June 26th, June 27th and June 28th of 2016. Two live performances at Sunday matinee, and a Tuesday evening performance. And then we had a little bit of time Sunday night. We had a little bit of time Tuesday morning, and then we had all day Monday to be on stage without an audience. So the shows that we did with an audience did not stop. The cameras were positioned in the audience. The audience sat around them, but all the cameras were in the house or on stage, and we just ran the show as we always did.

We had six cameras with operators, and then three fixed cameras for the Sunday and the Tuesday, so we switched the vantage points from the Sunday to the Tuesday from those fixed cameras. But again, the show never stopped. This indelible and incredible company performed the show that they knew so deeply that I wasn’t spending any of my time thinking about performance. My job was about capture. My job was about honoring.

Watch HAMILTON now, only on Disney+.

Filmed at The Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway in June of 2016, the film transports its audience into the world of the Broadway show in a uniquely intimate way.